Mainframe Developer Resume Los Angeles, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

A competent professional in the field of Mainframes with 6 years of experience .
Extensive knowledge in requirement gathering, analysis, design, development, implementation, testing, documentation and maintenance of IBM Mainframe applications
Experience working in the domain of Insurance & Banking applications. Extensive hands on experience on IBM Mainframe Application programming
Excellent working knowledge in Application design, Development, Testing and Production support.
Ability to multi - task work across different applications. Diverse work experience with different functionalities of the application, with Development and Support projects
Extensive experience in creating High Level Design(HLD) and Low Level Design (LLD).
Perform impact analysis and provide solutions to user’s change requests.
Very good experience in trouble shooting.

PROFICIENCY MATRIX:

Mainframe: COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2, EASYTRIEVE, IDMS, IMS

Tools: Xpeditor, File-Aid, DB2 - QMF, ENDEVOR, CICS, IBM MQ

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

Analysis and Understanding the requirements and functional specifications.
Followed design and coding standards to facilitate the development of a flexible and robust data models and to deliver a quality product to the business customers .
Created design document and suggested modification to programs as per technical specifications and based on the existing functionality and requirements.
Coding, developing, modifying COBOL/DB2, CICS, Easytrieve programs and jobs in both online and batch environments.
Implemented new COBOL/IDMS programs & jobs in order to extract data from legacy IDMS policy centre databases to load them into Informatica database.
Identifying the repeated activities in the processes and developing automation utilities.
Execute impact analysis for requirement changes, finding affected list of programs and homogeneous implementation.
Responsible for correct versioning of code by creating and moving the requests using endevor.
Fostered a detailed testing strategy and performed IUT.
Defect tracking and monitoring and on time delivery.
Ensuring that the Quality standards are followed and Responsible for the final delivery.

Environment: z/OS, z/LINUX, IDMS, JCL, COBOL, Easytrieve, CICS, VSAM, Endevor, TSO, File-Aid, XPED, DB2.

Confidential

Mainframe Developer & Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

Work on user raised incidents and batch incidents
Analyse online and batch issues and fix them
Monitor the OPC error handling and fix the jobs in error
Deal with priority issues and provide an immediate workaround to users
Deal with MQ issues
Prepare SPUFI to update the data in DB2
Unload the policy from Production and load into lower region to analyze and find out the bug.
Debug using the IBM Debug tool and identify the root cause
Raise change requests to implement the SPUFI
Raise problem record in case of repeat of incidents and fix the problem permanently
Analysis and Understanding the requirements and functional specifications
Compose a solution document and share it with the subject matter expert to get the approval.
Created detailed technical design specification for enhancing the batch programs based on the existing functionality and requirements, care was taken to re-use most of the existing components/ modules.
Implemented new batch process utilizing COBOL, DB2, JCL, Easytrieve to capture the updates from up-streams through nightly batch.
Performed Peer review, log any issues and track till it is closed
Responsible for correct versioning of code by creating and moving the requests using Endevor
Status Reporting and Responsible for the final delivery

Environment: z/OS, JCL, COBOL, IMS, Eastrieve, SPUFI, IBM - MQ, File Aid, ASSEMBLER.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

Participated in client discussions to understand the requirements of the project.
Identified the impacts and changes required in the current batch and online flows.
Provides design development of projects involving COBOL development, migrations, and additions to existing applications.
Conceived unit, system, integration, functional, and performance test plans.
Provides regular status to Project Manager and development team.
Provided support for Deployment implementation.
Defect tracking and monitoring and ensuring on time delivery.

Environment : COBOL, REXX, JCL, EAZYTRIEVE, CICS, CA7 Scheduler